Ron Sable
Ron Sable...
New American Movement
In the 1970s Dr. Ron Sable was active in the Chicago New American Movement.
DSA Conference delegate
In 1983 Ron Sable was a Chicago delegate to the Democratic Socialists of America conference in New York City, October 14-16, 1983 [1]
PROCAN
In 1988, Dr Ron Sable served on the Board of Directors[2]of PROCAN (Progressive Chicago Area Network), an oganization which included several other prominent Democratic Socialists of America members, including Alderman Danny K Davis and Roberta Lynch.
Tribute to Golub and Montgomery
On November 16, 1989, Ron Sable was listed as a friend of the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights Tribute to Leon Golub and Lucy Montgomery, held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago.[3]
Chicago New Party
Madeline Talbott of ACORN was one of the key early organizers of the Chicago New Party.
She wrote a progress report on August 12 1992 which detailed meetings with Joe Gardner, Jackie Grimshaw (Deputy City Treasurer), Jim Pena (Federation for Industrial Retention and Renewal), lawyer Paul Strauss, Frank Rosen (Labor party Advocates), Connie Hall (IVI - IPO), Greg LeRoy and Lisa Oppenheim , (both Midwest Center for Labor Research). All were supportive.
She was also looking forward to meeting Ron Sable and Dan Swinney and reported that in May Dan Cantor held a New Party fund raising meeting in the Chicago home of Quentin Young , "with half a dozen good people present".[4]